Vote for your favourite garden!
Click on the names below to see the photos and a short write-up submitted by the gardeners!
Here are the entries for the 2024 County Pride Garden Contest:
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Destanne Erickson
Gardening is a hobby of mine that keeps me busy. I love to spend time out in my yard, watching everything grow. I start 90% by seed myself so gardening starts in February for me. I love to grow things you can’t just go and buy at the grocery store. This year some of the unique things I’m growing are Luffas for shower luffas, Crystal apple cucumbers, cucamelons, lemon cucumbers, chocolate peppers, rainbow peppers, purple peas and purple beans. A lot of these wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t for my husband building my geodesic dome greenhouse.
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Christina Best
I have lived in yellowhead county for 4 years taking pride in growing my own garden and learning to can for the winter months it has been a learning experience but enjoy my efforts and sharing with people in the community 😀 please vote for the beginner and all efforts in growing my own food thank you
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Gillian Vincent
Here is my entry for the garden contest. My name is Gillian Vincent. I love how great and supportive this community is.
Honourable Mentions (Non-Voting)
We also received these great entries. Although they didn’t meet all the contest requirements, we wanted to show them off and award them Honourable Mentions, as we appreciate Sandy Strand’s and Cynthia Borysko’s garden submissions in the spirit of the event! No voting is required for these.
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Sandy Strand (Honourable Mention – Non-Voting)
My Name is Mrs Sandy Strand. I am very proud of my garden
I work hard to get to look this way. I dug it out out out by hand. It was a mess when we first moved here .There was no flowers or fruit tree.
I am amazing at myself. It’s very hard for me to get around but love been outside. It’s a Happy Place for me to be in .
I have been working hard at my flowers bed for a few years now. I even dug them out myself .And put in all the flowers. Took about two years before it’s got going .Now it looks amazing. I plant a Rose 🌹 bush in memory of my mom and mother inlaw which bloom so beautiful every year.
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Cynthia Borysko (Honourable Mention Non-Voting)
“Growing my own food is important; especially now with the cost of groceries increasing. I value sustainability. I like that I can walk around my yard and eat. Right now I am eating strawberries, tomatoes and cherries—soon the peas will come! I can go out to my yard with a bowl and bring in a salad for lunch. I share my garden’s bounty with my neighbours; some are refugees from Ukraine. I have shared fruit and veggies and received homemade perogies in exchange. My garden is a space where neighbours, friends and family gather. My garden is part of my identity; I am a Yellowhead County gardener.”
